Beyond Punishment? - A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction

In Beyond Punishment?, Zachary Hoskins offers a philosophical examination of the collateral legal consequences of conviction. Considering how pervasive collateral restrictions have become and the dramatic effects such restrictions have on offenders' lives, Hoskins examines whether these extended measures of punishment are ever morally justified.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• PART I: The Moral Challenge of Collateral Legal Consequences


• Chapter 1: The Other Consequences of Conviction


• Chapter 2: Civil Measures or Punishment?


• PART II: Collateral Legal Consequences as Punishment


• Chapter 3: Traditional Rationales and Constraints


• Chapter 4: Contemptuous Punishment


• PART III: Collateral Legal Consequences as Civil Measures


• Chapter 5: The Case Against Collateral Legal Consequences as Civil Measures


• Chapter 6: Non-instrumental Justifications


• Chapter 7: Consequentialist Defenses


• PART IV: Further Questions


• Chapter 8: Prosecutors, Guilty Pleas, and Collateral Legal Consequences


• Chapter 9: Collateral Consequences and Criminalization


• Bibliography

About the author

Zachary Hoskins is Assistant Professor in philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He writes about issues in moral, legal, and political philosophy, especially about normative questions raised by the criminal law and punishment. He has co-edited two books and written more than 20 articles.

Summary

In Beyond Punishment?, Zachary Hoskins offers a philosophical examination of the collateral legal consequences of conviction. Considering how pervasive collateral restrictions have become and the dramatic effects such restrictions have on offenders' lives, Hoskins examines whether these extended measures of punishment are ever morally justified.

Additional text

A criminal conviction can bring a host of collateral legal consequences - voting and employment restrictions, loss of access to housing, to welfare, and so on - that are too often ignored by penal theorists. Hoskins' Beyond Punishment is the first systematic attempt to address the question of whether such consequences are morally justifiable. It will define the debate for the foreseeable future." -Matt Matravers, Professor of Law, University of York

Product details

• Authors: Zachary Hoskins, Zachary (Research Fellow Hoskins, Hoskins Zachary
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780199389230
• ISBN: 978-0-19-938923-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy; Studies in Penal Theory and Ph; Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy; Studies in Penal Theory and Ph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Legal aspects of criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminology: legal aspects